Lean concepts, once the mainstay of the manufacturing industry, are becoming increasingly integrated into health care to improve functions and decrease costs. These concepts will be the topic of the ...

Now more than ever, your sheet metal shop operations need to be lean in order for you to get the most out of your socially distanced workforce. But when it comes to lean, how do you separate fact from ...

The industrial and systems engineering department at Rochester Institute of Technology received the Institute of Industrial Engineers Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Lean Concepts. This is the ...

In the early years of my business career (mid ’80s), I was introduced to the concepts of Total Quality Management. My company was totally focused — from the top down — on removing inefficiencies from ...

Lean leadership is (and remains) fundamentally about one thing: respect for people. In health care, lean leaders exist to serve the next level closer to the patient and maximize value for both ...

Lean concepts and methods have a bit of a reputation for being “anti-innovation.” All the talk of standardization tends to be off-putting to some who claim that the focus on consistency hinders ...

Converting non-productive time into customer-focused, productive time enables any organization to grow revenue faster than cost. This course prepares participants to implement tools of the ...

A pair of local entrepreneurs are convinced that companies around the world need to be placed on a diet - one focused on becoming lean. That is the concept for the Lean Learning Center, founded in ...

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Industry News:Applying lean concepts to labourExcerpts from the interview. Why has it become necessary to apply lean concepts to labour? For countries that have depended on low-wage labour to succeed, ...